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Who Knew Wednesday 2/24

Spring Break is right around the corner for MVNU which means spring break trips!  This year I am going to Belize! Belize is a small country in Central America.  It is between the Caribbean Sea and dense jungle.  There are many vacation spots and amazing natural wonders.  The Mayan ruins are also a big attraction.  However, I’m not going to be enjoying the scenery; instead I will be going to a small school and working there.

I am going to Belize with a team of MVNU students.  We are going to be setting the foundation for two classrooms, then other teams will slowly piece the classrooms together. If you would like more information about how MVNU is involved in Belize, check out mvnu.edu.

Word of the day
deasil
adverb
1. clockwise

Have a great Wednesday,
Faith

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Joe goes ON the road to Nashville!

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Joe Rinehart of the Afternoon Drive is on his way to Nashville, TN to attend the National Religious Broadcasters Convention. He is with Dr. Dean Abbott, Communication Department professor and 6 students from Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
(In the picture above: Emily Porter, Josh Pope, Jessica Wells and Jenna Potts)

Click HERE to hear about their trip and upcoming activities for WNZR Crew!

We will be checking in with Joe and Jessica Wells throughout the week.

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NZ Top 10 for February 19th

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Here is this week’s NZ Top 10:

10- Natalie Grant, Be One
9- Lincoln Brewster, There is Power
8- Chris Tomlin, Good Good Father
7- Stars Go Dim, You are Loved
6- Jeremy Camp, Same Power
5- Matthew West, Grace Wins
4- MercyMe, Flawless
3- Big Daddy Weave, My Story
2- Jordan Feliz, The River
1- Casting Crowns, Just Be Held

This week’s breakout hit is 7eventh Time Down’s ‘God is on the Move.’ See the video here.

Our word of the day is REPOSE, which is trending in the news:

Justice Antonin Scalia will lie in repose in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court before his funeral, according to tradition. The term lie in repose is used in this case, since to lie in state usually refers to the placement of the coffin of a President, military leader, or member of Congress in the rotunda of the Capitol. Both traditions allow for a time of public viewing of the casket.

Thanks for listening!

-Joe

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Why Build His Kingdom?

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Last week we started the discussion about our Lifeline 2016 theme, “Build Your Kingdom Here.”

This week, we’re asking and answering this question: why should we WANT to build His kingdom in our hearts?  To me, one answer became clear last Sunday in church, when our youth pastor, Brian, spoke very transparently about how the “Gospel means everything.” It’s the good news that Jesus brought that fuels a desire to make room for Him in our hearts.

But what is that good news?  Luke 15 gives us some perspective. When Jesus tells the parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost son, we learn some very important elements of the beauty of the Gospel…

1- Every person is important to God. Why else would the shepherd leave 99 to find one lost sheep?

2- God celebrates when a lost person is found. All three of these parables don’t end with a scolding, they end with a celebration!  Just like heaven does when a lost soul is found.

3- While we may turn away or turn our back on God, he never turns his back on us!  God never stops in his pursuit of us. He doesn’t turn his back on the straying ‘son or daughter.’

4- God has compassion for the lost. The father in the story of the prodigal son extends his love and acceptance his boy returns, miserable after trying life on his own.

When we build his kingdom in our hearts, he gives us his heart when it comes to lost people.

Today’s word of the day is: deasil (DEE-zil), which simply means, clockwise!

Thanks for listening…

-Joe

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Who Knew Wednesday

February 17th is Random Acts of Kindness day!  What act of kindness have you done today? Random acts of kindness can impact positively impact others.  When I day random, I mean random.  Make your act unexpected.  As Christians we are called to live our lives differently.  Our greatest commandments are to love God and love others.  Today Jess and I are challenged to this in our own lives, and we hope you are too!

When you are kind to others it makes your day a little brighter! As a soccer player, sometimes I get discouraged.  I’ve realized that if I encourage others I feel uplifted myself! So, today what random act of kindness will you do?  Jess and I found a link that gave us ideas of acts of kindness that can be done any day, any time.
Random Acts of Kindness

See if you can use our word of the day as you go and act kind! Today’s word of the day is: celerity
noun
1. swiftness; speed.

Have a great Wednesday night!
Faith

Photo courtesy of res.goochlandschools.org
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Glimmer Girls Game Time Tuesday

Today was Game Time Tuesday on the Afternoon Drive.

We started off the show by telling you all about Glimmer Girls, the new book series for young girls written by popular artist, Natalie Grant. Since we told you about the books, we decided to go ahead and give a couple away.

First, we played song poetry with the lyrics Wanna thank You for the grace I know I don’t have to earn / You love me, You love me/ Your mercy is proof. Guy from Mount Vernon called in and correctly guessed that those lyrics belong to All I Can Do by Mikeschair.

Also, Sonja from Mt. Vernon was out Name That Tune winner, and correctly answered that the clip we played was from Jordan Feliz’s song The River.

Both of our winners picked up one of the Glimmer Girls books, and you can pick up your own over here.

Our Word of the Day was castellated, an adjective meaning having many castles or built like a castle. You can read more on that here.

Have a terrific Tuesday evening!

-Jess

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60 cents? That’s it?

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Today our Mystery Monday question was: This activity costs the average American about 60 cents a year.

The surprising answer was: charging our cell phones!

So I did some digging…really?  Only 60 cents a year? I found an article from the utility blogging group OPower that studied how much electricity an iPhone 6 takes to charge. They found that based on the average price of electricity, it takes about 47 cents a year to charge your battery once a day. 52 cents for the iPhone 6 Plus.

How did they figure this?  It takes 10.5 watt hours to charge the phone.  Electricity costs around 12.3 cents per kilowatt (that’s 1,000) hour. 10.5 x 365 = 3,832.50 watt hours or 3.8325 kw hours. Take 12.3 cents  x 3.8325 and you get 47.1 cents. Easy, right?

By the way, a laptop costs 14 x more to power up each day = $6.58/year
A Desktop? 49 x more = $23.03
An XBox? 61 x more = $28.67
AN HDTV? 71 x more = $33.37

Today’s word of the day was ENCOMIUM (en-COH-mee-um), meaning a formal expression of high praise; it can also be a eulogy. Example: An encomium by the president greeted the returning hero.

Thanks for listening!

-Joe

 

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NZ Top 10 February 12

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This week’s NZ Top 10:

10. Be One by Natalie Grant
9. There is Power by Lincoln Brewster
8. Good Good Father by Chris Tomlin
7. You are Loved by Stars Go Dim
6. Same Power by Jeremy Camp
5. Grace Wins by Mathew West
4. Flawless by MercyMe
3. My Story by Big Daddy Weave
2. The River by Jordan Feliz
1. Just Be Held by Casting Crowns

Word of the Day
fusby
adjective
1. short and stout

Have a great Valentines weekend,
Faith

Photo courtesy of castingcrowns.com
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Build Your Kingdom…where?

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Today we started sharing some of the reasons behind choosing “Build Your Kingdom Here” as our theme for Lifeline 2016.

Reason #1 – the song from Rend Collective, which starts with these lines:

Come set your rule and reign, in our hearts again...

Reason #2 – Luke 17:20-21

20 Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, 21 nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.” (or “in your midst”, NIV)

The point of all this is to remind us that the ‘kingdom’ of God starts in our hearts!  He needs to take His rightful place on the throne of our heart.  So the question becomes, are we making room for Him there?  Have we made sure to create good habits to allow Him to take his rightful place? To start his construction project? Are we crying out to him to, once again, take rule in our hearts?

Revelation 3 reminds us that he’s standing at the door and knocking…are we answering and letting him in?

Today’s word of the day: INTERSTITIAL (in-ter-STISH-ul), meaning…
pertaining to, situated in, or forming small or narrow spaces or intervals between things or parts; in anatomy. situated between the cells of a structure or part: interstitial tissue.

Thanks for listening!

-Joe

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